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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly participation in the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

According to Un-Reliable Narrator magazine: the TToT is the oldest continuously published bloghop (1887 to present) and ranks highest in the number continents where, provided one has sufficient privacy, it can be accessed. One survey in Women’s Wear Daily cites a ‘Glad-I-Stumbled-Across-This-Thing (Whatever-It-Is)’ rating of AA...ay! No less an authority than Librarian’s Secret gives it a Three-Fingers-To-Pursed-Lips rating.

So, come and join us and see how people, (presumedly like you), enhance their existence by focusing on the good in Life. For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list this week includes:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Winter? Well, not yet, however… Phyllis will have a field-day stacking the firewood we had delivered yesterday (no, serially, she’s actually into that kind of activity)

Before

6) See that Section just beyond the Husky-proof(ish) fence in the photo below? Thats the base for the Working Wood Pile where the individual fire units in Grat #5 will be transported and arranged on a pleasing, stable and gravity-resistant pattern.

7) WIP (Home Project Landscaping Division) de-Summering the Cottage Island

8) something, something

9) The co-hosts/co-hostinae, respectively: Frank, Andrew, Denise, Misky, cai, Knitcat, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa and, as always, Mimi

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Let’s wrap up the week with a second Six and at the same time tie down the most productive insights from our series on personal reality.

Thanks out to Frank and Misky, Cynthia and, as always, Mimi for their Commentation this week that served to keep us focused(ish) on the very subjective topic of personal reality and the Wakefield Doctrine.

The notion of reality being personal, while not original to these pages, has been a linchpin to the learning and application of the principles supporting the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Call it an aid to the deployment of imagination (in a well-stirred disbelief suspension).

We began with a proposal of the role (and function) of (a) personal reality.

Then a proposed encounter of the three predominant worldviews and asked of the Reader to imagine how each experienced the scenario.

Finally, a suggestion (from your Curator) of the scene before each of the three.

And, now today, in conclusion:

For the purposes of maximum enjoyment of the insights afforded by the Doctrine’s three ‘personality types’ and, secondarily, to provide some intellectual rigor (lol) to our modest alternative perspective, we will say:

you know how we describe the perfect personality type as being the best compensation for/ strategy to succeed in a social environment, that we all, as very young people, develop in response/reaction/reconciliation to being an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member?
if you’re feeling confident in your ability to maintain your bearings, consider this: for the child who has the relationship with the world around them we call Outsider, the world (and the people who make it up) is an Outsider’s world. The character of this world isn’t imposed by our young human… the people view him/her as an Outsider (or in Doctrine parlance, ‘a blue monkey’)… actively, without precondition. As is only natural. For the split second your imagination allows you, think of a personal reality encompassing reality.. The world is an Outsider(‘s) world. (As with Predators (scotts) and Herd Members (rogers).)

Cool right?

(ok…a little horrify. but hey, we’re all past that stage and have our perfectly (suited to reality) worldviews all kinds of practiced and such, to the point that we hardly even have to think of it.)

…much

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 16 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Prompt word:

SNAP

For the boys, (and a little less so for the girls, as the lines of effective communication between the two universal armies was still decades away), the first day of school for the fourth grade at St Dominique’s was every bit the WWII prisoner-of-war movie, right down to harshly confining uniforms and unpalatable food.

By no means a surprise, rule-by-adult nevertheless came as a shock; to the more imaginative among the prisoners, horribly unjust. Despite, (or, perhaps, because of), having been through this indoctrination only three times before, (novelty being the default reaction of the very young), it all felt both new and inevitable.

Order was imposed on the body compelled to wear uncomfortable clothing, the presence of authority undeniable with seats assigned, (as if the ordered rows of desks bolted to the floor weren’t enough), and the penultimate lesson: beyond the windows serving as one whole wall of the classroom, the sun shone with insolent warmth, out of reach for the term of their incarceration.

Standing at the front of the room, Sister Mary Cletus, with the serene patience of the experienced jailor, awaited her charges; the blackboard behind her playing tricks on the eye with the contrast of a black habit and stiff white wimple; her eyes, visor’d by a pair of steel-wired rim glasses were a depthless blue, her face surprisingly soft; a relief map of a long and not always easy journey.

Without a word, the nun, (a member of the unironically named Order of the Sisters of Mercy), turned to face the black board and, with a one-handed snap of a piece of chalk, wrote:

‘Time and Man’

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “… six words causing our Time Adventurers to fall into a silence most profound”

October 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 16 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously, in our tale…

(Language Advisory. ….’cause, well, Rosetta!)

Prompt word:

SNAP

“Geez Louize… that poor little robot …”

The Sophomore’s quiet lamentation was, against the sheer volume of the conversation raging around him, but a scream doing a killer imitation of a whisper.

“What!?”

Anya Clarieaux’s single word question, at a volume no greater than the young man’s, cut through the vocal maelstrom of recrimination, accusation, invective and all around ‘whose fault is all this’ filling the dining room of a vacant house/temporary safe-house.

I watched as our leader/captor/rescuer walked around the table to where the Sophomore sat, his girlfriend on one side busy with fueling the argument and, with a soundless snap of a perfectly manicured finger in Rosetta’s direction, transformed the girl’s, “what the fuck are you talking abou…” into silence.

Standing next to the Sophomore, Anya’s voice was a thoroughly disturbing synthesis of a mother comforting a child and a not-that-much-older young women coaching a determined yet unsure suitor, “Ethan, I need you to tell me what you saw in your time trip and don’t leave anything out…”

Without taking her eyes off him, she began to sit while taking his hands in her own.

I know I shouldn’t have been surprised, but it was Rosetta Storme who managed to get a chair behind Anya in time for her to sit; I was rewarded by her look of defiant chagrin before she returned her attention to Anya and the Sophomore.

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Bendseday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Now’s the tricky part.

In yesterday’s post you read about three people contemplating having lunch (together) in a crowded restaurant.

The easy part: by virtue of being familiar with the character (and characteristics) of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, one is able to extrapolate their individual responses to the prospect of lunch:

the clark is an Outsider. not a part of, not even a necessary, if not always pleasant, aspect of the cycle of life (hint: rhymes with scott), ‘Outsider’ as in apart from. if you do not appreciate how that translates on a social interaction matrix… off to Remedial Doctrine class with you!
the scott is a Predator. what characterizes Predators in the most economical use of words? chase/be chased action-equals-life. Fun Doctrine insight: the menu may be pasted to the window of the restaurant, but it’s also standing on full, live-action display (and, yes, there will be other Predators pretending to be du jour), all the better to start the game of life
the roger as an individual is the promise of the Herd, as a Member, (of the Herd), the justification of all they collectively stand for: ‘take, eat, this is my worldview’. there is no sadness in sacrifice if it is part of the greater whole

…now, the hard part!

lol

no, wait! lets save that for Friday. We gots to work on our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

we suspect you, the Reader, might appreciate a little time to assimilate and ruminate on the overt implications of our little illustration of the real in personal reality, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine. To this end, allow us to pose some potentially enlightening questions. (New Readers who are clarks? You can skip this following section. Unless, of course, you want to indulge in the vicarious sense of belonging as you answer the questions for yourself.)

if you ‘wake up’* to the fact that you are an Outsider, how do you feel?
well, yeah, you’re kinda busy trying to figure out what they, (everyone but you), seems to know that you do not
ok… it’s clearly a secret that the others have forgotten they know… don’t assume otherwise. Even an Outsider has instincts for self-preservation and bugging everyone around you about this matter is surely not a good idea.
decide to ‘pass’ and get to work finding the thing they know, the information in whatever class in ‘Being a Part Off’ you unwisely played hooky from, thanks goodness intelligence is so not huge on peer comparison at an early age (at least among peers) (ish)

*no, roger. stop. no point or need to seize on the wake up. we all become the personality types we are because we deal with the world as we experience it as little baby children. our attempts to cope and our strategies to survive and thrive is in direct relationship to the personal reality we find ourselfs in.